Lack of Innovation Quotes

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to machine, to cast or to bolt things together? Not one that's on a path to future greatness, that's for certain.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

When you make $78 billion a year, as the three large oil companies are doing, you have no interest in changing the status quo…. Oil companies are not interested innovation.

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

I'm not an innovator.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.